Boris is going to be in No. 10 for ten years

[Soph0571]

Just watching newsnight. They are clinging to the Corbyn project like if only Brexit was not happening, they would have won. They won the economic argument blah blah blah. Rebecca Long Bailey blah blah blah. I heard an idea on the radio the other day that the Corbyn project labels people victims, saviours or saints. Working class are victims in this scenario, which they are not and do not see themselves as any such thing. The Corbynistas are of course the saints and everyone else is the villain. The shocking result means they are doubling down on this. I can see no evidence of any perspective taking from the left of the party. None.

If they do not wise up, and wise up quickly, Boris will be in number 10 for ten years and we will not recognise our country at the end of it.

[secondwind]

1. 😩😩

[yellowcanine]

2. Not if Brexit blows up Britain's economy and Scotland leaves.

That Conservative majority could evaporate over night.

[Matilda]

5. That's what I was wondering,

but of course, I'm an outsider looking in.

But I did wonder whether a lot of Brits are just fed up with Brexit dragging on and on, and with Corbyn in power, it would take years more, in all probability.

With so many rusted-on Labour seats going to the Tories, is it perhaps just a temporary hiccup, and once it's done and dusted, many of those people who deserted Labour would go back? Especially as I don't think Boris is the brightest crayon in the box and (a) is likely to stuff up somewhere along the line, and (b) will probably break most of his promises anyway.

When there's such a radical shift, there always has to be a trigger, and I can't see anything except Brexit. Surely it can't be the prospect of socialism; public ownership of the health system and transport in particular worked very well when I lived in London, and I never felt that there were a lot of unhappy people about.

[wryter2000]

3. What a sad prospect

Even Trump only gets a maximum of eight

[roamer65]

4. Johnson is a godsend for Scottish independence.

He will push it into the mid-50’s, maybe even 60 pct on the referendum.